{"id":18548,"date":"2016-12-05T06:08:09","date_gmt":"2016-12-05T06:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/?p=18548"},"modified":"2016-12-05T06:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-12-05T06:08:09","slug":"weve-waiting-map-eastern-market-smells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/weve-waiting-map-eastern-market-smells\/","title":{"rendered":"What We&#8217;ve All Been Waiting For: A Map of Eastern Market Smells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I walked around Eastern Market with my nose in the air.<\/p>\n<p>Let me explain&#8230;\u00a0it was a Tuesday and I was working\u2026and smelling. All sorts of fun smells (read: slaughtered animals and trash) that stirred childhood memories of chicken coops and dirt. The uniqueness of Eastern Market is that it is a gathering place for Detroiters and non-Detroiters, and (possibly more importantly) because it remains a working market amongst all the other craziness.<\/p>\n<p>So, I noted where the smells were lingering and made a map. This is by no means a comprehensive map of smells \u2013 I encourage you to go and note your own. The smells are charted on a spectrum of red to yellow. The red swatches denote conventionally \u201cbad\u201d smells, and the yellow denote \u201cgood\u201d. The darkness of the color represents the intensity of the smell.<\/p>\n<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-18549 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smell-survey_total1-189x300.jpg\" alt=\"smell survey\" width=\"466\" height=\"740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smell-survey_total1-189x300.jpg 189w, https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smell-survey_total1-646x1024.jpg 646w, https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smell-survey_total1-768x1218.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/12\/smell-survey_total1-scaled.jpg 1614w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I am constantly tickled (like the kind of tickle that sort\u00a0of hurts\/itches but still makes you laugh) by the significance of signs and images\u00a0in Detroit (more thoughts about \u201ccity-as-sign\u201d later). Ask anyone who\u2019s visited the Market and they will rave about the experience that conjures an image of beauty and wonder. Eastern Market is a beautiful place visually. But it\u2019s also smelly. Because it\u2019s real. It&#8217;s the combination of all the senses, not just the visual representation, that makes a place. The pictures of the sheds will never really encapsulate what it feels like to be there\u2026which is part of the reason it\u2019s considered to be an authentically Detroit place. It\u2019s romantic, dirty, beautiful, and chaotic all at once.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I walked around Eastern Market with my nose in the air. Let me explain&#8230;\u00a0it was a Tuesday and I was working\u2026and smelling. All sorts of fun smells (read: slaughtered animals and trash) that stirred childhood memories of chicken coops and dirt. The uniqueness of Eastern Market is that it is a gathering place for Detroiters [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":199,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,12,24],"tags":[514,63,166,515,516],"class_list":["post-18548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-livedetroit","category-playdetroit","category-shopdetroit","tag-authentic","tag-detroit","tag-eastern-market","tag-map","tag-smell"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/199"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.challengedetroit.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}